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The formal semantics of the progressive aspect is notoriously difficult to pin down, as a number of analyses in recent years attest (Dowty 1979:§3, Vlach 1981, Parsons 1990:§9, Bach 1986, Kearns 1991, Asher 1992, Landman 1992, Glasbey 1996, among others). Broadly speaking, the progressive presents two sorts of problems: (i) (what we might call) the 'state-related problem' and (ii) (what Dowty calls) the 'imperfective paradox'. […]
reference
- Naumann, Ralf and Christopher Piñón. 1997.
Decomposing the progressive. Proceedings of the Eleventh Amsterdam
Colloquium, ed. Paul Dekker, Martin Stokhof, and Yde Venema,
241–246. Amsterdam: ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of
Amsterdam.
URL <http://pinon.sdf-eu.org/covers/dp.html>
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for the time being (until i manage to convert the old wordperfect 3 for the macintosh file into a useful format), this is a scan at 300 dpi of the published paper. unfortunately and inevitably, it's a rather big file. :-(
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